Vladislav

Keep the work going and the truck moving! I mean in the end

Let me put my part in to the story. I haven't deal with Grainger's but I probably will. Because I had some "nice" practice with McMaster. Maybe some of you remember heart-touching story when I was in the US one of our members Paul Roncetti gave me full McMasters paper catalog. He was surprizingly so friendly so knowing I was going to visit Matt Pfahl sent that quite heavy book to his adress to achive me. I was too impressed both the way of getting it and the content of the book and after being home I registred on their web-site, filled up the order (for about $100) and... got the answer. Here you can see it: "Hi Vlad, Due to the complexity of U.S. export regulations, McMaster-Carr accepts international orders only from our established customers. This decision also applies to orders shipping within the United States, because it is based on the final destination of the items. We cannot accept this order or future orders. Christopher" I didn't stop on that point and contacted local dealer who has a partnership in the US to provide me with that stuff. They also got the answer "No", how they deskribed it to me "due to the small amount of merchandize, they used to work with monthly big deals only". I didn't stopped again though, contacted my friends in Holland, the asked their friends in NY, those folks ordered the stuff,and GOT IT with no troubles. The rest of the story was also nice - American guys brang all that in a plane by their Christmas trip to Holland, than it was shipped to my another friend to Germany, than his father carried it in his luggage by plane along his trip to Moscow. And I finally got it. Funny for shure. Uhhh...

Hope the work will be done soon. How are you shure the new spring will be quite equal to the other?

Looks pretty. No, really better to say sexy indeed.

I too like this style of a cab. There was one for sale locally but with no papers and in a shape required a lot of work. So I missed the deal preferring pay more attention to Bulldogs. They were made also in Brasilia after splitting the production in Germany, probably up to the late 80's. The late ones had dual square lights, one below another on each side.

A lot of good luck with the project! Looks awesome when painted. Still wondering how do you sand blast the assembled bogie, I mean about different seals, bushings and breathers. Vlad

Looks like it was done on the 1st page Paul, I don't use to miss your attention. I had no talks with the folks who brang that Ford to the show although I spoke with the Czech guys who built the crane and got their contact for the future. Going to wright them, will ask about the Ford also, shure they're familiar with it and maybe with the Romanian modellers. Vlad

Do you mean some of this kind? I had one with roll back years ago although didn't ever drive it in NY

Mick, those all models were assembled off plastic kits of different producers. So they conein lots of hand work and were built as single exemplairs. Many were strongly modifyed using different optional custom parts or just scratch-builded stuff. For example if you look at the pic 2 from the top of the list there's DAF chassis with high detalization. The man who built it worked it out as the vehicle he drives every day by his job. The cab used the resin casted one from the Great Britain firm, the chassis components were of some plastic high-series models strongly modifyed though and the engine was almost scratch-built. He said on my question that he multiplied it by resin casting for his future projects. So at all there's a lot of prducents of different plastic kits with nice-looking pictures on their covers although you need to add a great amount of time, labour and attention to get a really good rig on your shelf. It's also a kind of adventure anyway.

I think you're right, Paul. I saw the pics of pre-assembled not painted kit and too liked how clear it was done. So when I found out that ready truck I fixed it in my camera. As for me I don't. Just too liked how it was done. Would be too interesting to learn the answer of your misterious question.

Too sorry about those stories folks. I can feel your pain so deep. Because, as Pawel said, there's no SAE stuff here at all! Or just at all. The SAE hardware on my Mack trucks is a kind of adventure to me, an additional point of luck to keep it all original. Although a mixture of metric stuff with inches looks to me as a real BS. Leslie, if the things will go really bad I can send some best quality bolts and nuts off Mercedes-Benz cars. Used though. McMaster might be ready to help I hope. They weren't too friendly to me though being saying "No stuff to Russia by any way".

Hi Pawel! Yes, I put my foot around the center of Europe again. Although was shortened in time so went to Germany by plane and continued with the rented car. Catched the perfect weather wich you enjoyed also I hope. Came back home yesterday and found snow and light freeze here. Happily now troubles with Ukranian story yet although it makes me worry. Politics might force out course of life to be changed. Hope you enjoyed the pics and woked slightly up your modelling activity now.

Those Bulldogs were shure built off the Monogram boxes although with a great amount of labour and love. If you look well you may see the seat cushion on the crane is removed showing the springs in the cracked area. Both 2 AC's were built by Czehian guy. He had 2 or 3 different extra ones, had the pics of them in his phone. The cars on the bottom pics were really nice done with the most accuracy. Every little part was worked out really perfect. The paint job was just at the top level.

More stuff

Hi all! There was the interesting event I didn't want to miss so I made a trip to Europe to. Most the stuff showed was of 1:24 or 1:25 scale. Some models were lager though. I made a lot of pics for shure, here you can see the most interesting and attractive ones. And keep in mind, the shots were done in Jabekke, not in Winfall, if someone was in waiting for another sort of them Had many talks with nice folks there also.

Does a glider have a chassis number stamped on a frame? One of my R's has both rails mark-free. Maybe re-railing? But they are painted in the original frame color, almost like the everything about the chassis.

What is the kind of the gear box? I might be interested in it (box) if it's some TRD-72, the bigger one, not TRD-67. Vlad

Looks solid and no much rust for Canadian unit. If it would be a twin I might start to wiggle my a$$ an a chair. RW is damn attractive excepting the bank wich doesn't look bad on my mind. That's a wrong thing though.

Have you seen so much snow in Kansas at the lunch time today?? That stuff looks mostly gone in my neck of the woods yet..

I double all the kind words above in your address Kscarbel. The most reason for me being here is getting knowledge over the truck product we all here too love. It's a great chance for me as a person who lives far away and who lived many years in the past behind the shield of the Cold war to be involved in the living of so nice community of Mack people. This way I really happy while here and want to say special thanks personally to you and to everybody else who share interesting and useful information over the part of the trucking world we all so used to enjoy. Vlad.

Wonder about the interior. It must have steel dash in, isn't it?

A kind of laziness wich is actual a real stupidity. The show truck must go a long way so they will need to wash it very well before the show must go on.

With 12v71 it would be a mad beast. Just an easy spray of the wheels with a can and cleaning/polishing up the cab might make her nice-looking white-dressed lady.

Randy, PM sent. Tom, too sorry to learn that.

Best wishes guys! Enjoy your day!